Titanic soup tureen

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This silver-plated soup tureen, stamped "E.M," indicating it was to be used in the engineers mess, was salvaged from the Titanic's wreck site. The artifact is on display at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This silver-plated soup tureen, stamped "E.M," indicating it was to be used in the engineers mess, was salvaged from the Titanic's wreck site. The artifact is on display at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Peter Muhly / AFP/Getty Images)

This silver-plated soup tureen, stamped "E.M," indicating it was to be used in the engineers mess, was salvaged from the Titanic's wreck site. The artifact is on display at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland.